National statistics

Personal and stakeholder pensions statistics

HMRC statistics on contributions to personal pensions, the cost of pension tax relief, Annual Allowance, Lifetime Allowance and Flexible payments from pensions.

• From: HM Revenue & Customs
• Published: 30 September 2021
• Last updated: 28 October 2021 — See all updates

Documents

Commentary for Personal and Stakeholder Pension Statistics: September 2021

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Background and Methodology

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Tables 1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4

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Table 6

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Tables 7 and 8

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Table 9

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Quality report: Personal Pensions statistics

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/quality-report-personal-pensions-statistics

Details

These statistics provide:

• the value of contributions to non-occupational personal pensions
• tax relief estimates for employer and individual contributions to personal and occupational non-state registered pension schemes
• statistics on Annual Allowance and Lifetime Allowance charges
• statistics on Flexible payments from pensions

Headlines and commentary are available in the main publication document. Methodology is explained in the background and methodology document.

Some previous updates to these statistics can now be found on the National Archives website.

Published 30 September 2021
Last updated 28 October 2021 + show all updates

1. 28 October 2021

   Updating the graphs with clearer aesthetics. Added a paragraph to 3.6 - Contributions in excess of the annual allowance (AA) to the Background and Methodology document. Removed the HTML for the Quality Report and added a link to a new page which holds the Quality Report.

2. 30 September 2021

   First published.